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The Government Attacks the Freedom of Speech

The Government Attacks the Freedom of Speech

by | Apr 4, 2024 |

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”-- Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty as governments throughout the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech. The freedom of speech is unique in American history and ethos. It was the linchpin of the secession of the 13 colonies from Great Britain. It is often claimed at the most distinguishing characteristic between life in the United...

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‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law

‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law

by | Apr 3, 2024 |

We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for merely insulting language. In response, author JK Rowling has taken a stand and dared the Scottish police to come and arrest her for criticizing transgender status. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act...

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The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

by | Apr 3, 2024 |

The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s so much more at play. In the 50-plus years since the U.S. Supreme...

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Israel’s war, Netanyahu’s Gamble

Israel’s war, Netanyahu’s Gamble

by | Apr 2, 2024 |

US Democratic Party support for Israel is fast fissuring – an “ideological tremor,” Peter Beinart (editor of Jewish Currents) calls it. Since 7 Oct “it has become an earthquake” – a “Great Rupture.” This concerns the fusion of Liberalism to Zionism that long has defined the Democratic Party: Israel’s war in Gaza has supercharged a transformation on the American Left. Solidarity with Palestinians is becoming as essential to leftist politics – as is support for abortion rights or opposition to...

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We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. Al Jazeera Has Shown Us How

We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. Al Jazeera Has Shown Us How

by | Apr 2, 2024 |

For weeks, as Gaza was battered with bombs and the body count in the tiny enclave rose inexorably, Western publics had little choice but to rely on Israel’s word for what happened on 7 October. Some 1,150 Israelis were killed during an unprecedented attack on Israeli communities and military posts next to Gaza. Beheaded babies, a pregnant woman with her womb cut open and the foetus stabbed, children put in ovens, hundreds of people burned alive, mutilation of corpses, a systematic...

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A Fauci for Every Farm Animal

A Fauci for Every Farm Animal

by | Apr 1, 2024 |

Mainline industrial confinement livestock producers routinely feeding subtherapeutic antibiotics to their animals have been desperate for an alternative for many years. As superbugs like cDiff and MRSA developed, consumer backlash against ubiquitous antibiotic use increased. When consumer advocacy groups pummeled factory farmers with headlines like “Who’s Drugging Your Dinner?” the industry first denied it was a problem, then actively started looking for alternatives. I remember well when Bill...

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The Senate Calls Out-of-Control Spending a National Security Threat, Keeps Spending Anyway.

The Senate Calls Out-of-Control Spending a National Security Threat, Keeps Spending Anyway.

by | Apr 1, 2024 |

Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over 34 trillion dollars (and growing) national debt threatens national security. A few days later, a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted for a 1.2 trillion dollars spending bill. In addition to the usual increases in war and welfare spending, the bill funds gender transitioning for minors without parental consent and red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s firearms without due process. Before passage of...

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Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry

Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry

by | Mar 30, 2024 |

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry. The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President’s past statements on his family’s well-documented influence peddling operation. President Biden is not expected to testify. However, the media should be interested in his answering the questions presented by the Committee. It is now clear...

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The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree

The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of Congress called for radically curtailing those nullifications of Americans’ privacy. But the effort to put a leash on the federal surveillance failed dismally. Congress voted for a four-month extension of FISA,...

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Taking Easter Seriously

Taking Easter Seriously

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.”-- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British governance, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not “safety” or “taxes”; it was “freedom.” Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of...

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Ukraine’s Survival Hangs in the Balance 

Ukraine’s Survival Hangs in the Balance 

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

A controversy arose needlessly over the advisory issued by the American embassy in Moscow on March 7 to the effect that “extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts” and warning US citizens to “avoid large gatherings.” It took the form of a diplomatic spat and momentarily at least, the American claim that they shared the ‘information’ with the Russians hinted at the ineptness of the security agencies in Moscow while the latter hit back saying...

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Sen. Schumer: Gaza War Is Pushing Support For Israel To Historic Lows

Sen. Schumer: Gaza War Is Pushing Support For Israel To Historic Lows

by | Mar 27, 2024 |

On March 14, Sen. Charles Schumer, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, gave a major speech on the Senate floor saying the Israeli government under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.” Schumer is the highest-ranking Jewish official in U.S. history. He added that “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” clearly believing this war is doing just...

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Serfdom under the TSA

Serfdom under the TSA

by | Mar 27, 2024 |

By now, I’m sure that most Americans have their own personal stories about TSA abuse. The U.S. government’s takeover of airport security after the 9/11 attacks has made flying an unpleasant experience. This past weekend, I was flying back to Virginia. A TSA agent took my carry-on suitcase aside and opened it up. She then pulled out a container of talcum powder. She spent around 5 minutes intensely examining it and then testing it. Up to that point, it was simply a matter relating to the talcum...

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Macron’s Psycho-Play to Keep Aloft the Punctured Balloon of a ‘Geo-Political EU’

Macron’s Psycho-Play to Keep Aloft the Punctured Balloon of a ‘Geo-Political EU’

by | Mar 26, 2024 |

Charles Michel, the European Council President, has called on Europe to switch to a “war economy.” He justifies this call partly as urgent support for Ukraine, but more pertinently, as the need for relaunching the (beached) European economy by focussing on the defence industry. Calls ring out across Europe: ”We are in a pre-war era,” Polish PM Donald Tusk says. Macron, after mooting the possibility ambiguously several times, says, “Maybe at some point – I don’t want it – we will...

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Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates

Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates

by | Mar 26, 2024 |

Below is my column in the New York Post on a reported plan of the Democratic National Committee and allied groups to try to block third-party candidates from the 2024 ballot. The contradiction is stunning as these groups raise money to “save democracy” by limiting democratic choice. Here is the column: The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics. Mayor Richard Daley declared...

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The French Road to Nuclear War

The French Road to Nuclear War

by | Mar 26, 2024 |

March 24, 2024 ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: On the Brink of Nuclear War Mr. President: France is reportedly preparing to dispatch a force of some 2,000 troops — roughly a reinforced brigade built around an armored battalion and two mechanized battalions, with supporting logistical, engineering, and artillery troops attached — into Ukraine sometime in the not-so-distant future. This force is purely symbolic,...

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A Pantry Full of Marijuana

A Pantry Full of Marijuana

by | May 20, 2021

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law on Thursday legislation that doubles to two ounces the amount of marijuana individuals age 21 and older may legally possess in the...

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